The New Sudoku Players' Forum

[beans]

yesssssssss?

[Shazbot]

you can get help here anytime you're stuck with a puzzle. But you need to post the puzzle that you're stuck with. Preferably the original as it appeared in the publication, and the stage you're at now. If you use candidates/pencilmarks, you can include another grid showing what remaining candidates you have for each cell.

Here's an example:

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 *-----------*
 |...|..3|2.5|
 |8..|...|.7.|
 |7..|.2.|38.|
 |---+---+---|
 |...|..1|.2.|
 |..9|642|8..|
 |.5.|9..|...|
 |---+---+---|
 |.18|.9.|..4|
 |.4.|...|..2|
 |9.6|2..|...|
 *-----------*


 *-----------*
 |..1|..3|2.5|
 |823|...|.7.|
 |7.5|.2.|38.|
 |---+---+---|
 |..4|..1|.2.|
 |.79|642|8..|
 |.52|9..|...|
 |---+---+---|
 |218|.9.|..4|
 |547|...|..2|
 |936|2.4|...|
 *-----------*

 
 *-----------------------------------------------------------*
 | 46    69    1     | 78    78    3     | 2     469   5     |
 | 8     2     3     | 145   156   569   | 1469  7     169   |
 | 7     69    5     | 14    2     69    | 3     8     169   |
 |-------------------+-------------------+-------------------|
 | 36    68    4     | 3578  3578  1     | 5679  2     3679  |
 | 13    7     9     | 6     4     2     | 8     135   13    |
 | 136   5     2     | 9     378   78    | 1467  1346  1367  |
 |-------------------+-------------------+-------------------|
 | 2     1     8     | 357   9     567   | 567   356   4     |
 | 5     4     7     | 138   1368  68    | 169   1369  2     |
 | 9     3     6     | 2     1578  4     | 157   15    178   |
 *-----------------------------------------------------------*


You can click on the Quote button to see what I've done to format it this way - this sort of format makes it very easy for people who want to help you out to see what you've done and what your next step might be.

[QBasicMac]

[ Just FYI, shazbot] I have a program at www.SuDoku.funURL.com that will produce candidate lists with minimum spacing so that most will fit on the screen even if you are using smaller windows. The one you posted fits if I select FULL SCREEN, but has overlap on a smaller sized window. (Of course, small enough and any display overlaps)

Mac

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+------------+-----------------+------------------+
| 46   69  1 | 78    78    3   | 2     469   5    |
| 8    2   3 | 145   156   569 | 1469  7     169  |
| 7    69  5 | 14    2     69  | 3     8     169  |
+------------+-----------------+------------------+
| 36   68  4 | 3578  3578  1   | 5679  2     3679 |
| 13   7   9 | 6     4     2   | 8     135   13   |
| 136  5   2 | 9     378   78  | 1467  1346  1367 |
+------------+-----------------+------------------+
| 2    1   8 | 357   9     567 | 567   356   4    |
| 5    4   7 | 138   1368  68  | 169   1369  2    |
| 9    3   6 | 2     1578  4   | 157   15    178  |
+------------+-----------------+------------------+


[Shazbot]

thanks Mac - that's one of the few complaints I have about Simple Sudoku - if there are a lot of candidates in once cell, they ALL have that spacing, and sometimes I need to go in and remove the spaces. I also have a spreadsheet that will produce the candidates list with minimum spacing, but it's a pain to have to type in all the clues and eliminate candates all over again. When I have a chance, I'll check out your link.

[QBasicMac]

When I have a chance, I'll check out your link.

You might not want to bother. Since you are a programmer, you can easily do the same thing within your program (or be lazy like me and make it external).

My link is to a zip with two programs, a program similar to your that saves progress and a Forum formatter which demands files in my save format. That's why I say forget it.

What I did was create an array with all cells in string form and, at the same time, compute the max string length in each column.

Then I produced the output such that each column was max-length plus 2 for readability.

(Heh - not that you couldn't come up with that or a better way)

Mac